[RiflemanSharpe]

With all the good paying jobs going overseas how do they expect us to buy what they sell?

[cpst12]

This is a net positive for economy...it will free up those 5000 programmers for other opportunities...the lines are always too long at Walmart, I bet some ex-programmers wouldn't need too much training to be able to handle the registers, right?

[snippy_about_it]

You are correct. I've been saying for sometime now if they keep exporting American jobs and bringing in H1b visa workers to take American jobs then how can we afford to buy their products while we are unemployed or underemployed. They should be cognizant of the fact that this also means with lower wages or no wages we will be paying less taxes to support the politicians who support this loss of our jobs.

[The Electrician]

With all the good paying jobs going overseas how do they expect us to buy what they sell?

Isn't that a bit of overblown hyperbole? IBM has well over 100,000 high-paying jobs in the US, and they are adding more.

Others on this thread are suggesting boycotting IBM - wouldn't that be a foolish and shortsighted thing to do?

[marshmallow]

With all the good paying jobs going overseas how do they expect us to buy what they sell?

One can easily turn that question around.

Would you like to pay more for something because those who produce it receive high salaries? Or would you be happy to buy the same product at a lower price when produced by lower paid workers?

Most everyone around here loves to trumpet the values of undiluted capitalism and the virtues of the market, severed from any social or human principles.

Well this is it. Somebody in another country can do your job for less financial reward.

Enjoy.

[Regulator]

With all the good paying jobs going overseas how do they expect us to buy what they sell?

They don't. They do, however, expect you to join the American military to protect their overseas assets wherever they may be. The English King used to do the same thing with German boys from the State of Hesse, aka, "Hessians".